Joseph Fireborn
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Made some breakthroughs in my glaze work this week. Finally going to have some stability in the final product which is what I needed to move forward in production quantities for online, future shows and galleries!
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Going to run some line blends today. I want to matte down my standard white glaze slightly. I want it to be more of a sheen satin and not a solid glossy glaze. Taking a much needed day break from my studies.
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Think about using this glaze to do your line blend - https://digitalfire.com/4sight/recipes/cone_6_dolomite_matte_base_glaze_121.html
I used this and a clear in a line blend to get an excellent satin white liner glaze. Came out to use 40% clear and 60% dolomite matte. Had 3 good candidates to choose from. I was looking for a white liner that was not to shiny but not scratchy.
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Cool. I will try if what I did doesn't work. Yarr!
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Firing the kiln tonight. Extending my firing to 20 hours from 18. I have pretty much settled on my glazes so I am now just trying to fine tune my single firing schedule. I have 4 glazes total and 2 wood ash pastes. All of the glazes are white. How hilarious is that? The last white glaze I added forms a lot of crystallization so I wanted to hold longer at the right temps and I also slowed down my cooling from cone 6 to 1800G at 125F per hour. I am firing two platters that I can barely fit in my kiln, so I am excited that they come out good so I can give them away.
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Finally over my cold. I had such plans for this break, but between a family cold, kiln controller dying, and freezing cold garage I haven't gotten much done. However, I am going to accomplish a lot in the new year! Going to continue to work on my surfaces and glaze development. Exciting times.
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good time to plan for the next steps you want to take. drawing what is in your head, checking if you are prepared for actually working with clay when it gets warmer and you feel better.
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I have spoke to a bunch of people who had a miserable holiday break including myself and my husband. My husband told me yesterday that he couldn't wait to get back to work at least he gets paid for being miserable. The gray skies and extreme cold doesn't help. I am still down and out from my MS relapse, I have two half finished pots in my studio but they are so cold I don't have a problem with them drying out. Denice
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Hope everyone had a safe 4th of July. I know I grilled out a metric ton of hot wings. NOM NOM NOM.
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Unloaded a kiln of goblets for my aunts Agape youth retreat, mowed the lawn and then watched movies with my wife and brother Booter the rest of the night. We made vegan nice-cream. Hope you had a safe holiday also.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing badly at first!
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Right On Brother! Denice
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For those people who enjoy pottery to the primitive processes:
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Wow fascinating, thank you for sharing!
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Firing Kiln. Been a while since I fired a full load of porcelain. Maybe I will finally have something to add to my profile.
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SHELF GRINDING TIME!
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Rolling out grid test. Made about 15 of them. Red clay, Black Clay, Porcelain, Brown Clay. Yum.
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The excitement of experimenting.
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Mixing 10x100G batches of my base glaze for experiments. Kinda fun, but long.
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I'm going to be doing this soon. Have fun.
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Test Tiles in Kiln. WOO WOO
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4 of the 20 tiles came out nice. Now I need to test on bigger pieces.
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In the morning I am mixing 20x5 bases and adding non-toxic additives to find a liner glaze I like. Needs no drips while glazing, a nice glossy melt, and durable inside! Hoping I can find a nice grey/white.
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Yunomi 2017 Invitational : https://www.clayakar.com/collections/2017-yunomi-invitational // lots of beautiful pots to look at.
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Who ever gave me the tip on the wax resist. I appreciate it. Forbes is the bomb. My feet came out fabulous. = )
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Cutting down trees from Irma. Mixing slip and some new glazes for highlights. Applying slips. Sunning my cups. Glazing tomorrow. Firing Monday! WOOO! Weee
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Firing a new schedule. Needed to shorten mine as it is just too long. So I bisqued my pots before hand to avoid that extra slow ramp. I also changed the slow cool. It is still same total time, but slightly different in temps and ramps. Hopefully it works better or reasonably close because these 17-19 hours firings are just to hard to schedule in.
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Enjoying the chilly weather by my warm kiln cooling down while I throw pots in the garage. Couldn't ask for a better day.
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We had two nice days in a row here. I cleaned the studio up a good bit today and tomorrow I am going to mix up some ideas I have had brewing for a while: chicken grit, course grog, red sand, white sand(with smallstones) and black ice porcelain into my red rock clay. Nom Nom Nom. I am going to mix the black ice and red rock at different amounts looking for a dark black reddish body that I can spray with soda ash solution(safely) and then rub wood ash/flux mixture all over it dry. Then fire it on top of seashells! Can it get any more exciting!? I think not! 2018 is going to be a great year. I am only working with 2 glaze bases: Charles Titanium Grid 10 and Milky Gloss. The rest will be ash and soda mixtures. I also won't be glazing the entire pot anymore. Looking for that sheen. My elements are going to hate me, c'est la vie! But I also have to replace my controller tomorrow. Busy day Busy day!
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about 50 test tiles in kiln with slow cool. gonna be an interesting night tomorrow opening it.
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Just ordered a bunch of glaze materials. Tons of testing in my future! I love TESTING! Trying to find glaze combination I want for all my wares.
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